1Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 * Tape 3 * NFS 4 * Floppy 5 * FTP 6 7Note that installing on a "bare" machine requires some bootable 8device; either a tape or floppy drive or Sun-compatible NFS server 9with MOP capabilities. (Yes, NetBSD/vax uses the same netboot 10principles as Sun's does). 11 12The procedure for transferring the distribution sets onto 13installation media depends on the type of media. The most is up to 14you, depending what you want to install, but preferred are to do 15the installation over network as soon as the miniroot is installed. 16 17* Creating boot tapes: 18 19Fetch the two files from .../NetBSD-1.3/vax/tk50. Write them onto 20the tape, first file1 and then file2. Under Ultrix this is done 21just like this: 22 23 mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewind 24 dd if=tk50-file1-1.3 of=/dev/nrmt0h 25 dd if=tk50-file2-1.3 of=/dev/rmt0h 26 mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewoffl 27 28Under NetBSD this is done the same way, except for the tape name: 29 30 mt -f /dev/rmt8 rewind 31 dd if=tk50-file1-1.3 of=/dev/nrmt8 32 dd if=tk50-file2-1.3 of=/dev/rmt8 33 mt -f /dev/rmt8 rewoffl 34 35Of course, if you have another tape unit than 0 you have to use 36the corresponding unit number. 37 38If you are using any other OS to create bootable tapes, remember that 39the blocksize _must_ be 512 for the file to be bootable! Otherwise it 40just won't work. 41 42* Creating boot floppies: 43 44Fetch the files from .../NetBSD-1.3/vax/rx{50,33} depending of which 45floppy you have. There are three or seven files depending of the 46density of your floppies. Then just write the floppies using dd (under 47Unix, if you are creating floppies from DOS use some nice utility 48for that). There are one bootable floppy and a splitted miniroot image. 49 50* Booting from NFS server: 51 52All VAXen that can boot over network uses MOP, a DEC protocol. 53To be able to use MOP, a MOP daemon must be present on one of 54the machines on the local network. The boot principle is: 55 * The VS2000 broadcast a wish to load an image. 56 * A mopd answers and send the boot program to the VAX. 57 * The boot program does rarp requests, mounts the root filesystem 58 and loads the kernel. 59 * The kernel is loaded and starts executing. 60 61If your machine has a disk and network connection, it may be 62convenient for you to install NetBSD over the network. This 63involves temporarily booting your machine over NFS, just long enough 64so you can initialize its disk. This method requires that you have 65access to an NFS server on your network so you can configure it to 66support diskless boot for your machine. Configuring the NFS server 67is normally a task for a system administrator, and is not trivial. 68 69If you are using a NetBSD system as the boot-server, have a look at 70the diskless(8) manual page for guidelines on how to proceed with 71this. If the server runs another operating system, consult the 72documentation that came with it (i.e. add_client(8) on SunOS). 73 74You also must install a MOP loader. If you are booting from another 75NetBSD machine, MOP are included in the distribution, otherwise you 76may have to install a MOP loader. A loader can be found at 77ftp.stacken.kth.se:/pub/OS/NetBSD/mopd. Fetch the latest and read the 78installation instructions. 79 80The file that should be loaded are called boot and are located in 81.../NetBSD-1.3/vax/install. If you are not using the mopd written 82by Mats O Jansson (as the NetBSD are) then you should get the file 83boot.mopformat instead. 84 85The miniroot to start from is the one called miniroot.tar.gz located 86also in the install directory. Fetch it, unzip and untar it wherever 87you have your root filesystem. 88